Accessories to Modernity : : Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France /

Accessories to Modernity : : Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France / / Susan Hiner.

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Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteenth-century France. Considering how these fashionable objects were portrayed in f...

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Hiner, Susan,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2010
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.) :; 30 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Prologue
  • 1. La Femme comme il (en) faut and the Pursuit of Distinction
  • 2. Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage
  • 3. "Cashmere Fever": Virtue and the Domestication of the Exotic
  • 4. Mademoiselle Ombrelle: Shielding the Fair Sex
  • 5. Fan Fetish: Gender, Nostalgia, and Commodification
  • 6. Between Good Intentions and Ulterior Motives: The Culture of Handbags
  • Epilogue. The Feminine Accessory
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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